Satish brought pictures back from the wedding in India. Look at all those flowers & gold!

Congratulations Divya & Baijou!

Big Fish

We have been receiving questions on a picture I previously posted of Satish & a BIG FISH.

Question: What the heck kind of fish is that?

Answer: It's a Ling Cod. Satish caught it on the Bering Sea off Alaska. The guy standing next to him is the Captain who helped pull the fish onto the boat. Satish had it shipped to Colorado & it arrived home before he did. We had approximately 20 meals from it.

After a long day of questioning, I am back from Jury Duty (eventually dismissed). Will blog tomorrow.

Satish calls me the U tube queen. I liked this video on humming birds (check it out Laura).

Click HERE to see a nice story about humming birds.

My niece Shweta (we call her Chinnu) who lives in Dubai wrote this short biography for school. It just made my heart melt & so I thought I would share it. Thank you Chinnu for sharing your work with us. My favorite part is Chinnu's ambition in life: A Flight Commandant.

Shweta’s life.

Hello. My name is shweta. I am 10 years old.
I study in Our Own English High School Dubai. I study in 5th grade. I live in the country of UAE. I live in qusais Dubai. My hobbies are playing, reading, studying watching television, clay modeling, helping mother and father and painting. My best friend in school is Naela, Saeda, Sahir, Safiya and Afshan. I have 4 members in my family. They are my mother, my father, my sister and I. My mother’s name is Amutha. My father’s name is Suresh and my sister’s name is Pooja. My mother works as a doctor in Palm jumeirah in the middle of the sea. My father works as a doctor in Dubai hospital. My sister is 14yrs old. She is in 9th grade. She studies in the same school. My ambition in life is to become a flight commandant. I will achieve it by learning how to fly a plane. I should take my passengers safely to their respective country. I will not make any accidents to injure them. Example- crashing the plane without filling the petrol and without checking the tires. I like to see the beautiful white clouds near the plane and the beautiful birds flying below and above my plane. So I like to be a flight commandant. My favorite food is junk food. HAHAHAHAHA
Just kidding!!!!
I like noodles and chicken. My favorite drinks are Pepsi, Miranda, Fanta, 7 up and mountain dew. My respective country is INDIA!!!!!! I live in Cochin. Now I like to say a few words about my state Cochin. Cochin is a beautiful state with flowers, free roads and green grass. In Cochin, my building’s name is Panchavati apts. In that apts. I had so many friends that I couldn’t even count them. My best friend in that apartment was Varun. My sister’s best friend was Jerusha. So that’s my life called shweta’s life.
Thank you.

For all you do for us...Thank you!!!

Thanks to anonymous for the nice comment about our garden.
Here are a few more photos of it.

Satish developed a mini-sprinkler system for the rock garden.

I love to sit quietly while the tiny sprinklers rain down among the plants.

There doesn't seem to be any rules about nature's choice of colors

Maybe that's what makes them so beautiful.

One of Satish's favorite flowers:

The Lupine

The blooms are pretty but the foliage is nice as well.

It reminds me of a more tropical looking plant for Colorado.

It also re-seeds itself quite nicely.

Our first clematis bloom of the season

...pretty

Garden Art...

with a little help from my computer.

All done with school for a while.

Got the Hawaiian shirt on.

Party!

(The way 5 year olds party - of course)

This time of year around our house,

it looks as though it is snowing while the sun is shining.

This is due to very large Cotton Wood Trees that

live on the walking path behind our house.

It is difficult to capture it in a picture, but if you look closely,

you can see the white fluffy stuff flying all over the place.

(Click on pictures to enlarge for a closer looksy)

Love, love, love...

Flowers from our garden.

Vijay's last day of preschool is next week.

I got these cool wizard pencils for his teachers.

Our neighbor hand carves & paints them.

(click on picture for larger view)

So creative - I kept one for myself.

Accha this bouquet is for you. From the garden.

Love, Vijay

• Helping Grandma with her Crossword Puzzle early in the morning


• Having fun at school on the playground


• Taking a long nap after a busy day